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v. Simple past tense and past participle of entrench.

adj. dug in

adj. established firmly and securely

"Kenneth N. Luongo, president of the Partnership for Global Security, worried that the conference - the first of its kind - might prove to be long on hype and short on action, given what he called entrenched bureaucratic and technocratic interests and differing views on the urgency of the threat of nuclear terrorism."

entrenched    entrenches    entrenching   

take advantage    trespass    fix    secure    fasten   

intrench   

trench    dig in    consolidate   

Bench    French    Hench    bench    clench